Last summer, Reader's Digest
published an article listing the 50 cleanest metropolitan cities in America. They scored cities based on air
and water qualities, pollution by industrial toxics, and sanitation. There's no big surprise that Portland scored the
highest for cleanliness overall, but what did surprise (me, at least), was that several cities that I would
never have guessed, scored a perfect 50 for the quality of their tap water. Riverside? Las
Vegas? The list of perfect scoring cities are below:
- Buffalo, NY
- Columbus, OH
- Denver, CO
- Las Vegas, NV
- Portland, OR
- Riverside, CA
- Sacramento, CA
- Salt Lake City, UT
- San Diego, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- San Jose, CA
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1-24-2006 @ 9:48PM
Davediego said...
San Diego is on that list? That has to be a joke
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1-25-2006 @ 1:12AM
Christine said...
I live in San Diego. Our tap water tasted awful for a few months this summer and drove me to bottled water. Supposedly it happens every year when they treat the water for algae? I'm glad, but surprised too.
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1-25-2006 @ 1:18AM
rosie said...
Columbus, Ohio was number 4? Wow - who woulda thunk it!
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1-25-2006 @ 10:46AM
Liz said...
Davediego, I second your disgust. I grew up there and when I finally tasted great tap water (Yes, there is such a thing! This happened to be in San Simeon) I realized how awful I'd had it all those years. My parents, who still live there, keep a carafe of purified water next to the sink in their bathroom to use when brushing their teeth.
Maybe SD tap water is "clean" but it tastes disgusting.
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1-25-2006 @ 3:39PM
TOM said...
Las Vegas? Wow. I lived there for 15 years and the water there is harder than Euclidean geometry.
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